paulhaskew
Unoffical Dominos Spokesman
join:2002-01-10
Vancouver, WA
clubs: | big fish
big fish eating smaller fish... its bound to happen no matter what... |
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Anon00
Premium
join:2001-09-25
USA
| Could be a good thing
If MS is serious about security and not gut the company. Especially if they start offering this program for free you can have a whole bunch of people with much more secure systems. Just yesterday I got done cleaning up two comps with hideous amounts of Malware and not all came from the use of IE (so don't go saying they should use Firefox) and if MS provided a tool I think a lot more people would be capable of cleaning and securing their own systems.
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MystBlade
Premium
join:2002-10-21
Lacey, WA
clubs: | Join us or Die...
its more like saying you will join us, or we will smash your company to bits and get nothing.
Microsoft again takes what it wants. |
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Goober
Premium
join:2000-12-17
Naperville, IL
1 edit | reply to Anon00
Re: Could be a good thing
This can be a very good thing as longas (as was mentioned above) MS doesn't gut the company.
But, I'm sure the MS bashers will find more criticisms. Check that, the MS bashers are already out. |
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Jeremy341
Bye
Premium
join:2000-01-06
localhost
| Didn't just "fare very well overall"
It should be noted that Giant didn't just "fare very well", but came out on top of all of the tests. It looks like Microsoft has made a wise choice here, and I'm looking forward to what will undoubtedly be an excellent application.
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I do not trust Firefox. Spread anything besides that horrid piece of crap. |
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The Beer
I Love It When A Plan Comes Together
Premium
join:2001-07-24
Omaha, NE
clubs: | N O O O O O!!!
OMG NO NO NO NO NO |
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Jeremy341
Bye
Premium
join:2000-01-06
localhost | Um, OK. I'm afraid to ask, but why "NO"? |
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The Beer
I Love It When A Plan Comes Together
Premium
join:2001-07-24
Omaha, NE
clubs: | Wait...
Now that I think about it...
Will Microsoft still sell the Giant product to fix problems that are in the original product?
Would it not be easier to fix the original product? |
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DaSneaky1D
one wall to block them all
Premium,MVM
join:2001-03-29
The Lou | reply to MystBlade
Re: Join us or Die...
You mean, Miscrosoft again BUYS what it wants.
No sense critisizing MS. Giant had to sell in order for it to be bought.
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Jameson
10-8
Premium
join:2004-05-28
Fallbrook, CA
clubs: | wow
It seems like everyone is buying everyone anyone elise noticing this? |
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dadkins
Can you do Blu?
Premium,MVM
join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
 ·Comcast
| reply to DaSneaky1D
Re: Join us or Die...
Well said! 
As with *ANY* purchase, said item has to be for sale and sold by the "owner". 
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No Firefox here, move along! |
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recrum
join:2002-09-10
Akron, OH | reply to Jeremy341
Re: Didn't just "fare very well overall"
Hopefully they don't screw up perfectly good software. I also use Giant's Spam Inspector and love it. |
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N3OGH
Bear patrol must be working like a charm
Premium
join:2003-11-11
Philly burbs | reply to MystBlade
Re: Join us or Die...
Reminds me of the Simpson's episode where Bill Gates buys Hypercompumegaglobalmart from Homer.
"Ok, buys, buy him out!!!!" |
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ecb12
join:2004-03-11
Columbia, MO | crap
crap i actually liked Giant now it will most likely never be as good as it is now. |
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Derch
Premium
join:2004-10-16
Tulsa, OK | Homer
Has anyone seen that episode of the Simpsons when Homer starts his own company and Bill Gates comes along, tells him it's his now, and has thugs beat him up for it? Awesome episode... |
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Samwoo
join:2002-02-15
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA | reply to The Beer
Re: Wait...
looks like ms wants to rebuild it...
they probably want to give it a "user friendly" windows gui |
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Beggar Su
Drunken Master
Premium
join:2004-08-15
UK
1 edit | reply to Derch
Re: Homer
said by Derch  :Has anyone seen that episode of the Simpsons when Homer starts his own company and Bill Gates comes along, tells him it's his now, and has thugs beat him up for it? Awesome episode... Yes it was a funny episode. Someone mentioned about it in the previous post.
This reminds me of a song I heard a very long time ago and fits well with it.
»www.davidpogue.com/songs.html
"I Just Called to Say I Bought You"
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MystBlade
Premium
join:2002-10-21
Lacey, WA
clubs: | reply to N3OGH
Re: Join us or Die...
just stating facts, who says it was for sale? Mircosoft has done this in the past, with threats and ongoings. I know I worked for them for 2 years I know what goes on. |
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bhorow
join:2004-05-17
Forest Hills, NY
| GIANT/MICROSOFT
GIANT was a prime takeover opportunity for Microsoft. I am wondering whether or not Microsoft will move the company to Seattle. Giant is a New York Based company. I really think the move was wonderful and smart, not a lot of details on the website, but as someone who just started depending on Giant about a month ago. What support there will be for the product.
I did find some flaws in the product, just recently. Like it didn't clean all the traces. for example in the Extract downloader trojan it would kill it trace by trace. SO i had to scan 3 times in order to get that trojan removed. I brought it to their attention. It still is a better product in my comparisons than spysweeper or adaware.
Adding this as a security feature makes a lot of sense. Security is really hot right now. If you take a look at the Giant product you will know why. It looks like a product that microsoft can deal with its interface is intelligent. |
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sorne guy
@milwwi.ameritech
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Re: Didn't just "fare very well overall"
they could revamp activex and fix the problem internally, instead of adding another layer of bloat, but why do that?
no point in scraping off useless layers of paint, just gloss it over with another coat
(p.s. why would you feel the need to "spread" a program that almost everyone already has by default? should they download it a few more times for laughs?) |
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